Alabama, the Cradle of Baseball Greatness

December 12, 2009 by Arne Christensen · 3 Comments

A little while ago I started to realize that Alabama has produced some of the greatest players in baseball history. I remembered reading Bill James making a point somewhere in his Historical Baseball Abstract from the â€™80s about sports players tending to come from poor areas. I thought about Willie Mays and Hank Aaron, and […]

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